What's left when you "strip out" all the stuff you don't need in Vista? Oh, that would be Windows XP, I guess.

pdok

People used to feel the same way about XP back when we were all using 98/2000 but most of those people will now have to admit that XP turned out pretty decent.
I'm not a vista fan either but I'm sure that will change as it improves. The way it is right now I'll stick to XP for a while. If vlite is anything like nLite then it'll be a nifty little tool.

hippytyre

I think there are a lot of features in Vista that are desirable, that XP lacks. The flip-side to that coin is there are also undesirable features I could live without, of course.

I was one of those people that flat out refused to upgrade to 2K to XP. I was completely content with 2K, and saw no reason to move up, but eventually I did because over time, XP became a great, solid OS (Mac/Linux users will obviously disagree, but this isn't directed towards them anyways) and when I was selected to install Vista to test it out in our IT dept., I did so kicking and screaming. Over time I'm sure I will come to love it, maybe not as much as I loved 2K or XP, I think OS' are just better with at least 2 years under their belt, and only time will tell if the same holds true for Vista.

Cyphon

I am an admitted Mac fan. Not fanboy, but certainly prefer it to Windows. I just started using Vista on a somewhat more regular basis, and perhaps it's because I hadn't really used it much prior to SP1, but I'm not quite sure why it's so widely hated. It runs pretty nicely on my MacBook Pro (via Bootcamp, Vista in a VM is another story entirely). It hasn't crashed, yet.

@hippytyre - yep, vlite is from the same author as nlite.

ross.m

I prefer Vista to XP, save for the weird fact that it slowly swallows up hard drive space everyday for no reason.

Ziyaad

I'm dual booting Vista and XP until Vista is improved enough. At that point I'll upgrade Vista, move my files over, and then delete the XP partition. Until then, I'll cover my bases.

jimforcy

well, i've recently brought my desktop to vista, mainly for the 'previous versions' feature that it has automatically which is fantastic, and for media center, and for the updated version of spider solitaire.

I haven't commented on it anywhere, so i figure this post that has nothing to do with how much we like vista would do good enough lol.

basically, i'm happy. it seems to work out just fine for pretty much everything, except when I plug in my external USB hard drives, they are not recognized. I called in, and the first guy I talked to told me that it was because vista is purely NTFS, and I put him in his place about that and how regardless of the file system it's installed on it should be able to read other file systems, otherwise how would it read my jump drive etc. This eventually came to the thing I now hate most about microsoft:

THEY NO LONGER HAVE *ANY* FREE SUPPORT TO GO ALONG WITH THEIR PRODUCTS. Used to be you paid for an over priced item, you expect some customer service with it. Instead, now you have to pay $60 extra just to get any FLIPPIN service. WHAT. THE. FLAPJACKS.

Instead of putting me through to a tech guy who probably could have helped me find at least a decent workaround way to install some update or driver or something in less than an hour and a half, I spent about 2 hours on the phone talking to first one guy (the aforementioned) who directed me to another line for tech people where I was intercepted by some chic who then told me they wouldn't help me (unless I paid).

This stuff makes sense for business installations, but when it comes to us lowly consumers, i get no love.

i think i'll take this over to consumerist.

soldstatic

How much space can you save once you vLite Vista? I know with XP on my EEE, I reduced the final install size to 250mb.

Kas

This program is no longer available.
The hosting company shut it down...

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